Word: wojciech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underground leaders of the banned Solidarity union. Last week former Union Leader Lech Walesa was detained for questioning by police for the third time in seven days. Yet after his release, Walesa went ahead with a planned press conference in which he reminded the government of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski that Solidarity supporters "remain and will remain a moral force without which Poland cannot overcome its crisis...
Ever since his release last November following eleven months of detention, Walesa has been uncharacteristically subdued. Solidarity has been equally quiescent, even though its underground leaders have issued a number of vague appeals for popular defiance to the military rule of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. For its part, the debt-ridden Polish government is eager to project a veneer of normality, a task that is becoming increasingly important with the impending June visit of Pope John Paul...
...dismay of some of his colleagues, he has imprinted the Socialist International with his own ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from controversial subjects. When Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in December 1981, Brandt issued a bland statement of regret noting that "unwanted advice and strongly worded declarations will not help the people of Poland." Brandt has also drawn fire for his calls for "revolutionary change" in El Salvador...
Polish specialists have said that Gan. Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime is probably eager to see the 39-year-old electrician emigrate from his homeland, thus weakening his still-powerful influence on Polish workers...
...rigors of martial law. They could not travel, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. More than 5,000 people were interned, the independent Solidarity union was suspended and its leader, Lech Walesa, was being held at a government complex outside Warsaw. During twelve months of martial law, General Wojciech Jaruzelski has succeeded beyond most people's expectations in crushing the overt opposition to Communist rule in Poland. As a sign of its self-confidence, the government last week announced that it was releasing all but seven of the estimated 200 people who were still being held under martial...